Railway track



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL n. HUGHES, or nosnnnnny, IDAHO.

RAILWAY TRACK.

Application filed December 7, 1927. Serial No. 238,439.

' essary.

Another object of the invention is to provide a'device of this character constructed in such manner that the use of wooden ties is eliminated, thus providing a structure which will last indefinitely.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind so constructed that the adjacent ends of the rails will be firmly connected.

With these and other objects in view, this invention resides in the novel features of construction, formation, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated 1n the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of track. Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the sills.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view through the device.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on line 55 of Figure 8.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the clamping member.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of one of the anchors. I

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the sills which are formed from suitable sheet metal and placed in alinement upon the road bed with their adjacent ends disposed in spaced relation.

Each sill comprises a base 2, beveled upon its under side, as at 3, to prevent lateral creeping thereof when on the ballast of the road bed.

Rising from the base are verticall disposed laterally spaced inner and outer anges 4 and 5, the upper edges of which terminate in horizontally disposed flanges 6 and 7, respectively. The flanges 4 are provided with longitudinal shoulders 8 and resultant grooves 9, the purpose of which will be later explained.

The rails 10 in assembling are tilted in order that the inner edges of their flanges 11 will engage in the grooves 9 of the sills. The flanges will rest upon the sills 1 with their outer edgesspaced slightly from the flanges 4, the spacing being for the purpose of permitting the rails to be tilted to apply or remove the same.

The adjacent ends of the rails are beveled as at 11 in order to provide a scarf-joint to eliminate pounding of the. wheels of the rolling stock when passing over the joints.

The adjacent ends of the rails areconnected by bolts 12 which are passed through the webs 13 thereof and through relatively small fish plates 14 which are engaged upon the inner faces of the webs. These bolts are also passed through the vertical plates 15 of the clamping members 16, said members including horizontal plates 17 which terminate at their outer edges in integrally connected I vertical plates '18, the upper edges thereof having inturned flanges 19 adapted to engage under the flanges 7. It' will be observed upon reference to Figure 3 that the clamping members 16 are of such shape that they will be positioned with their plates 15 flush against the webs of the rails 10 and at which time the plates 18 are engaged with the flanges 5. Thus it will be seen that the rails are prevented from moving outwardly or upwardly owing to the fact that the outer edges of their flanges are engaged in the grooves 9,

and the plates 18. The plates 18 will intimately engage the inner surfaces of the flanges 5 while the flanges 19 snugly engage under the flanges 7.

To preclude any likelihood of the sills and rails spreading laterally tie bars 20 are employed' andhave their ends provided with hooks 21 adapted to engage the flanges 6 as more clearly shown in Figure 4, said side bars having anchors 22 carried thereby adapted to be embedded in the road bed ballast. I

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a track has been rovided wherein the use of wooden ties is e iminated, the inherent resiliency of the assembled metal elements providing ample flexibility. to the track to permit the rolling stock to ride easily thereover without shock. Further, by this construction, the rail joints will be prevented from sagging or buckling, thereby providing a track with an even tread.

Having thus described the invention, I

claim: I 1

1. A railway track comprising a series of alined sills, said sills having vertically disposed laterally spaced flanges carried thereby, rails disposed between the flanges and engaged upon the'sills, said flanges being provided, respectively, with grooves and terminal flanges, and clamping members engaged With the Webs of the rails and terminal flanges.

2. A railway track, comprising a series of alined sills including vertically disposed laterally spaced flanges, said' flanges beingprovided, respectively, With terminal flanges and grooves, clamping members including connected vertical plates, one of said plates beingcngaged with an adjacent rail flange and With the terminal flange, the other plate being engaged with the Web of the rail, the

flange of the rails being engaged in said 15 -t W-GQII- the webs oi the rails and the outer flange, tie bars having hooks upon their ends for engaging the terminal flanges of the inner flanges, and anchor members carried by 2 the tie-bars.

In testimony whereof I afflxmy signature.

J OELD HUGH-ES. [1 s] 

